Combing-machine for wool and other similar fibers.



J. COOPER, 'J. F. WHITE &'L. COOPER. GOMBING MACHINE FOR WOOL AND OTHER SIMILAR FIBERS.

APPLICATION TILED APR. 17. 1906.

Patented Feb.'2, 1909.

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J. .GOOPER, J. F. WHITE & L. 000mm. GOMBING MAGHINE FOR WOOL AND OTHER SIMILAR FIBERS. APPLICATION FILED APR.17.1906.

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JOSEPH COOPER, JOHN FRANCIS WHITE, AND LOUIS COOPER, OF BRADFORD, ENGLAND; SAID WHITE ASSIGNOR TO SAID JOSEPH COOPER AND SAID LOUIS COOPER.

COMBING-MACHINE FOR WOOL AND OTHER SIMILAR FIBERS.

Specificationfof Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 2, 1909.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, JOsEPII COOPER,

JOHN FRANcIs WHITE, and Lows COOPER, British subjects, and residents all of Bradford, county of York, England, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Combing-Machines for W001 and other Similar Fibers, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in that part of a Noble comb by which the fibers are pressed down into the pins of the circles or combs.

This mechanism is constructed with presser disks which enter between the rows of pins and are mounted upon shafts which are placed radially across the pins of the circle combs and hitherto the shaft for the disks of the outer circle has been coupled to and geared with and driven by the shaft for the disks of the inner circle. This is an objectionable arrangement in as much as the gearing between the shafts pick up or entangle with the fibers with the result that the shaft and presser diskare displaced and the pins of the comb circle are damaged. By our invention we drive the two disk shafts of the apparatus separately and independently one of another.

The invention willbe fully described with reference to the accompanying drawings.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of the apparatus with part of the comb in section. Fig. 2 is a plan of same. Fig. 3, is an end elevation the large comb being removed. Fig. 4:, is a diagrammatic perspective view.

The presser disks A A which press the fibers between the pins of the outer circle comb B and of the inner circle comb C are of the ordinary construction.

The presser disks A of the inner circle comb C are mounted upon a shaft D and the presser-disks A of the outer circle comb B are mounted on a distinctly separate shaft E the shafts being mounted in separate bearings and at an angle or inclination to each other and so placed that the adjacent ends of the shafts do not contact with one another.

The bearings of the two shafts D and E are formed in the brackets F attached to the pillar G.

On the shaft D of the presser disks A operating in the inner comb circle a driving wheel 1 is affixed and the presser disks A and shaft D are driven by a train of wheels 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8 by a pulley a and band a, from a driving pulley a carried by a shaft in the pillar G.

On the outer end of the shaft E of the presser disks A operating in the outer comb circle a driving wheel 9 is affixed and the presser disks A and shaft E are driven by a shaft H with wheel 10 at one end gearing with the driving wheel 9 through carrier wheel 11 and the wheel 3 at the other end. The shaft H also carries the leading disks A A By this arrangement the shafts can be driven at different speeds and all entangling of the fibers is obviated.

What we claim as our invention and desire to protect by Letters Patent is I 1. In a Noble comb the combination with the combcircle and the presser disks A A for pressing the fibers between the pins of the comb circle, of two distinctly separate shafts D E placed in axial alinement with each other and their ends out of contact and mechanism for positively and separately driving the shafts substantially as described.

2. In a Noble comb the combination with the pillar G of a bracket F affixed thereto provided with bearings for two shafts, two

separate shafts D.and E so journaled in hearings in the bracket F in axial alinement with each other and their ends out of contact, presser disks A mounted'on the shaft D and presser disks A mounted on the shaft E, a train of gearing to the shaft D and a separate train of gearing to the shaft E, by which the shafts are positively and separately driven substantially as described.

In witness whereof, we have hereunto signed our names in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JOSEPH COOPER. JOHN FRANCIS WHITE.

LOUIS COOPER.

Witnesses:

ARTHUR WILLIAM VIOR, JOHN J. VIss, Junr. 

